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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users ASCII Character Set Post 302529838 by Corona688 on Friday 10th of June 2011 03:49:51 PM
Old 06-10-2011
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Originally Posted by alister
On *BSD (and I'm fairly sure on Linux as well, dont' know about the commercial Unices) there's always `man ascii`, which can be useful in a pinch.
No 'man ascii' on my Linux but Neo seems to have it. Man Page for ascii (Linux Section 7) - The UNIX and Linux Forums It may not be common.
 

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gnome-character-map(1)						   User Commands					    gnome-character-map(1)

NAME
gnome-character-map, gucharmap - insert special characters into a document SYNOPSIS
gnome-character-map [--font=string] DESCRIPTION
The Character Map application enables you to select characters from a character table, then combine the characters into a text string with standard characters. You can insert the text string that you create into other applications, such as text editor documents. Character Map provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the characters are not available on a standard keyboard. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --font=string Specify the font name and point size that you want to use to display the characters in the character table, when you start Character Map. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Character Map example% gnome-character-map Example 2: Launching Character Map With Specified Font Name and Point Size example% gnome-character-map --font="bitstream vera sans italic 20" EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-character-map Executable for Character Map. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-character-map | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Character Map Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. SunOS 5.10 20 Jan 2004 gnome-character-map(1)
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